期刊
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
卷 27, 期 5, 页码 581-592出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12719
关键词
beta diversity; biotic interactions; community assembly; dispersal limitation; habitat filtering; nestedness; pattern reconstruction; point pattern analysis; species replacement
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31722010, 31770666]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDPB0203]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC0500300]
- Smithsonian Global Earth Observatory Initiative
- HSBC Climate Partnership
- International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability
- National Science Foundation [DEB 1557094]
- Tyson Research Center
- 1923 Fund
- Cofrin Center for Biodiversity
- European Research Council (ERC) [233066]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [1237491] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1545761] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Aims: Patterns of spatial community dissimilarity have inspired a large body of theory in ecology and biogeography. Yet key gaps remain in our understanding of the local-scale ecological processes underlying species replacement and species nestedness, the two fundamental components of spatial community dissimilarity. Here, we examined the relative influence of dispersal limitation, habitat filtering and interspecific species interactions on local-scale patterns of the replacement and nestedness components in eight stem-mapped temperate forest mega-plots at different ontogenetic stages (large versus small trees). Location: Eight large (20-35 ha), fully mapped temperate forest plots in northern China and northern U.S.A. Time period: 2004-2016. Major taxa studied: Woody plants. Methods: We combined decomposition of community dissimilarity (based on the Ruika index) and spatial point-pattern analysis to compare the spatial (i.e., distance-dependent) replacement and nestedness components of each plot with that expected under five spatiallyexplicit null models representing different hypotheses on community-assembly mechanisms. Results: Our analyses revealed complex results. In all eight forests, spatial community dissimilarity was best explained by species replacement among local tree assemblages and by a null model based on dispersal limitation. In contrast, spatial nestedness for large and small trees was best explained by random placement and habitat filtering, respectively, in addition to dispersal limitation. However, interspecific interactions did not contribute to local replacement and nestedness. Main conclusions: Species replacement is the predominant process accounting for spatial community dissimilarity in these temperate forests and caused largely by local-scale species clustering associated with dispersal limitation. Nestedness, in contrast, is less prevalent and primarily associated with larger variation in local species richness as caused by spatial richness gradients or hotspots' of local species richness. The novel use of replacement and nestedness measures in point pattern analysis is a promising approach to assess local-scale biodiversity patterns and to explore their causes.
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